Hold The Line w/ Buck Sexton - 06-06-22

election so he could be removed from office. That's right, San Francisco is turning against its very progressive da to the tide, really be turning against the far left criminal justice reform effort. I'll answer that, and tonight's hold the line. Welcome to hold the line. I'm Buck Sexton. You may have seen over the weekend there were a lot of mass shootings that occurred in places like Chattanooga, Tennessee, and in Philadelphia and a whole range of other cities. Multiple

people shot, many cases old, dozens wounded. Here's just a CBS news headline. At least thirteen were killed dozens wounded in weekend mass shootings across the US. Horrendous and unthinkable, is of course the quote here, and that's true. Accept it is not unthinkable in so far as this happens pretty frequently. You look at what goes on in a normal weekend in Chicago. This has become far too routine

in this country. So yes, it is horrendous. But the reality is we are going through a continued surge in violent crime in this country, and it's from shootings, murders, the worst kinds of violent crimes all the way down to the day today. Anarchy of lawlessness and people feeling like they can get away with breaking laws with impunity.

I mean, for example, this was just in New York City, a Dwayne Reid store here where an individual stole from the store, returned ten minutes later after being engaged in theft, after being a shoplifter to attack staff with a bike chain. And he's got to know that he's on video. He's

not even wearing a mask, doesn't care. Figures. You know, worse comes to worse, he'll get arrested and he'll be out within a couple of hours, and then he'll have some progressive in the distric Attorney's office here in New York who says, oh, well, we don't want to make that guy's life too hard. So you know, let's give him another chance, and then we'll give him another or after he gets arrested again, and then another after he's

arrested again. This is what is playing out in cities all across the country, and progressive prosecutors, as in far left Democrats, are at the heart of all of it. People are starting to figure it out. It's not just defund the police that has made our criminal justice system

so much weaker than it previously had been. It's also the progressive prosecutor movement and their desire to end what they call mass incarceration, which means just let people out of prison, don't punish them as severely for offenses that everybody realizes are bad. But you know, social justice is more important than criminal justice. That has become the de facto mantra of the libs in these prosecutors offices who are making these decisions. Well, Psi Boudan, who has turned

San Francisco into something approximating an urban hellhole. He is finally facing voters who have realized what a mess he has made of their city. On Tuesday, come up tomorrow, Boudan faces voters in a recall election backed by business owners who are unhappy with his performance, to say the least. Poles indicate his austerers, supported by the majority of residents in the incredibly left wing city that has seen a spike in murder as well as other crimes across the country.

So this could be the beginning of some accountability for what is a shockingly stupid, reckless, dangerous idea pushed by the left that well, if we just have fewer people in prison, we'll have a better, safer society. That's not true. Are in prison because they are a danger to their

fellow human beings. That's where they should be. If people are career criminals, or if people are are habitual violent or serious offenders, they should be taken out of society or they can no longer prey upon their fellow human beings. This is pretty straightforward stuff. We've learned this over many, many decades. You could argue, stretching back throughout human history, you have to punish those who violate the laws and hurt their fellow human beings in society. Democrats say, well,

we want to limit that as much as possible. Let's cut that down, let's cut it in half. What does that result in, Well, what we see now all across the country. Remember, in twenty twenty, you had a thirty percent national spike in the murder rate in this country, the biggest one year increase in the history of recording murder rates in the United States. Okay, that's what the BLM movement, progressive prosecutors and defund police has led to. Finally,

there may be a little glimmer of sanity here. Wall Street Journal writing that a successful recall of mister Budan would mark a significant setback in what has been called the progressive prosecutor movement. Progressive prosecutors include distric attorneys of Los Angeles County, New York County, which encompasses Manhattan, Chicago's Cook County, in Philadelphia, all places where homicides went up

during the pandemic and a lockdowns. Yeah, this was very predictable, right, but they did it anyway, and then they lied to us to want to remind everybody that while the numbers started to show substantial increases in homicides and violent crime in these cities, you know what the progressives were saying, Oh, it's the pandemic, as if people being told to stay home and not interact with each other because there is a disease that we are much more concerned about them

than we are now. That was spreading would result in more murders. That doesn't make sense. It should result as it did in many countries around the world actually and fewer murdered. But that was the lie they initially told us. And as I've said, this was the result of decisions, like prosecutorial decisions to not actually punish people seriously when

they break the law in a serious fashion. Here's a group that shows you to drop in misdemeanor and felony prosecutions in San Francisco drops off heavily when Chessa Boudan is sworn in in twenty twenty. So Chessa Boudan's idea as a progressive prosecutor, let's be very clear on this, was I'm just going to prosecute fewer people. They'll be even more crimes going on, which is what happened. But

he's going to prosecute That has to be understood. You have an increase in crime, you have a drop in prosecution. Why would that be the case. Well, because the ideology of the left is that the criminal justice system is unfair. Central to this is that it is racist because a disproportionate number of the people that are prosecuted in major

cities in this country are racial minorities. And because of that statistic, they say, We're just going to prosecute fewer people that will somehow bring justice or balance of the system. This is crazy, but this is what they have decided to do. And we have all seen the suffering, disproportionately, by the way, suffering of law abiding minorities in communities all across the country where there's been this spike in crime. They suffer more than anybody else as a result of this.

But Chessai Budan is out there saying, oh no, it's it's really the Republican billionaires that are trying to recall me, you know, just trying to use the talking Points watch. They registered the domain for the recall the week I was corn into office. But as the pandemic war on and people got more and more upset at the changes in our lives, it was a really easy opportunity for Republican billionaires to fund a movement that, as you said,

does have some support from Democrats. Some support from democrats. Remember, the progressive prosecutors in these cities they didn't replace Republicans. They replaced other Democrats who were just not entirely insane when it came to the criminal justice system. But the activist left, the progressive left in the Democrat Party decided that they would push for George Soros with his tens of millions of dollars given to these das. That's a matter of public record. You can check it. That's not

a conspiracy. It's true. They decided just prosecute and punish less and see what happened. Well, we've seen a lot of people have been murdered, shot, raped, assaulted, carjacked, thousands and thousands more than we would expect in a normal year in this country because of these ideas. But the Libs have done all right. Fast food chain Pizza Hut is under fire after its suggested a book about a child drag queen two children as young as five. We'll

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As the left continues to push its gender ideology in schools and across the nation, we now see even more corporations hopping on board. Latest victim to the woke army is Pizza Hut. Newsweek reports the restaurant's new reading club bookt program, which targets grades pre kde is sixth grade, has some books focusing on the LGBTQ community on its website in light of celebrating Pride Month. So how do we hold a lot to make sure our children aren't?

You know? Part of an agenda here Joining me now to discussed is New York Post columnist Carol Marco with Carol good to see It, Get to see Buck. So let's start with this one, the lgbt LGBTQ Plus book Julian Is a Mermaid. In the spirit of Julian Is a Mermaid, This irrepressible picture book celebrates drag kids, individuality, and self confidence from the perspective of a fabulous wig. You're a parent, What the heck is going on here? So?

What's funny is is that I know exactly what this book is because in Brooklyn it was frequently distributed for free in my kids' schools, and so we ended up with at least two or three copies of this book. I've seen it up close, I know exactly what's in it, and it has absolutely no place being distributed anywhere, especially by Pizza Hut. So I think we've really gotten to a crazy place where a child doing drag is somehow okay.

And you know, the videos emerged this weekend of parents taking their kids to a drag show in Dallas, which was sickening. I don't understand how this persists and how it's all acceptable. I mean, we're showing people the footage here, it's honestly, I mean it's so depraved. I mean, you have adult males and there's even worse footage and photos than this that's been circulated. Adult males gyrating and dancing dressed up as women. They're not women, they're men, and

obviously in drag. And there's even photos of small children putting dollar bills in the g string of one of these performers. There is a sign that people may have seen in the background that says. You tell me, I mean something, you tell me what it says. It's not going to lick itself, Carol, What the hell is going on here? Yeah? And the thing is that I think a lot of these parents would understand just how wrong this was. If it were actual women doing these performances.

You couldn't take a strip club right. And you know, look, I'm a lifelong New Yorker like you. I had, you know, been to clubs in my twenties where drag queens perform, and it's you know, fine, but it's not for children. It just can not be for children. Some things are not for children. Alcohols not for children. Vegas is not for children, drag shows not for children. Why do you think there is? Because this is a clear movement of sorts. I mean, the activists are pushing this in New York City.

I member, my family sent me a photo of in the local public school, right, I mean not even know there were si public schools in my neighborhood, but there are. Apparently they were advertising a rag you know, drag queen story hour for kindergarteners. I mean, by the way, it always seems to be for kindergarteners and like third graders, first graders. What is this right? I mean, I think the idea is like, oh, they're colorful, they're glittery, like

why not? Well, why not is because it's inappropriate for children. Drag shows are generally adult material. They're usually quite sexy. They have this element absolutely of sexuality to them. And if we wouldn't allow a female stripper to come in and dance on the pole and just be like, look, she's also glittery and look at her shoes and it's amazing, then why would we allow men to do it in

drag That makes absolutely no sense to me. Here's one of the the drag queen saying that they're exposing kids to drag shows is beneficial. Watch. I think it was amazing. I never get to like perform in front of children. It's like performing in front of children. I have like six other younger siblings, so it was it was very emotional. I loved it. It was probably one of the best

shows I've ever done. Here's the thing. I don't think that there is any kind of issue with exposing childre into this, because especially if you if your child is in the community or you may think they are. I just think that drag is educational fuel. Drag is such like an art form. There's so much dancing, there's hair, there's wigs, there's makeup. There's so many things that kids will like, will love to experience with. So I feel like a lot of kids will want to like dabble

in everything that's going on in like drag. There's so much there. Carol Um, I think these people are honestly, I think they're mentally ill um But but beyond that idea that they don't generally get to perform for kids, yeah, that's by design, you know, point show for kids. It's also look, burlesque is an art form. Rate I actually again, I quite like drag, and I don't have a problem with it for grown ups. I just think it's ridiculous when you aim it at kids. It's like so many

other things. You can go to a burlesque show and be like, wow, that's pretty cool and that, you know, for grown ups to watch, But then you wouldn't take your six year old because it's inappropriate. My radio co host that Ray said, you know, he's got small kids. He's like, if I took my eight year old to a strip club, even if the women kept you know,

didn't get you know, didn't take off their clothing. Everybody would think that I was you know that that you know, he'm speaking the first person, he's some kind of degenerating child. Services would come and talk and yeah, yeah that would happen. So so why does this make it? I mean, I think, why, why would this be okay? I think it's not okay.

I think though, there was something that was really interesting in one of those drag performers when they were talking about this, that they're drag kids in the audience, as if there's already kids who, without adults training them to do this, would throw on wigs and glitter and gy rate their body parts in a way. I mean, it's like these people are crazy, right. It is absolutely fed to them by adults. There's no way a kid wakes

up and decides to do this on their own. Every few years they tell the story of a various drag kid, and there's absolutely no way that that kid discovered what to do without a grown up pointing them in that direction. I just it's all really sad and sickening, and it

really is. It's meant to blur the lines of gender and you know, the whole what is a woman conversation right now stems from exactly this kind of thing where we're no longer sure what a woman is because the gender lines have been so blurred by the way is you probably have seen, Carol, the Biden administration is tying school lunch funding to including the transagenda as though it's a civil right and part of Title nine. You're a governor in the state of Florida who wish you could

be everybody's governor pushing back on this watch. We're prepared for what Biden throws our way. And you know, yes, part of it's the inflation and the gas. Part of it are intentionally destructive policies like trying to deny school lunch programs for states that don't do transgender ideology and the schools, I mean, give me a break, totally off as rocker to be doing that. We're fighting on that,

don't worry. So we're just prepared to be able to defend the taxpayers and the hard working people in the state of Florida. And I couldn't be prouder for doing that. Yeah, I'm proud of him. It's really it's a unique experience for me. To have a politician that I think is great and he happens to be my governor, that's incredible. That never happens. I've never had a politician that I thought was really, you know, doing what I wanted him to do, So it's great. It's the preservation of normalcy

that I'm always talking about with Florida. It's not that Florida is doing something crazy. It's literally just trying to preserve a normal life that we used to understand before we got to the Biden and ministration. Using birthing person as if that's okay to replace the word from other like it's it's just back to sanity, and that's what Ronda Santis pushes and I'm all for it me too, Carol.

Good to see it. Thanks to see you, Buck. Federal lawmakers on the January sixth Committee are set to take their case public this week, as Americans seem less interested in what they have to say. After the break, we'll talk to Senior Council with the Article three project. Will Chamberlain, I don't want to talk to you about protecting your online data for a second. A lot of companies promise

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According to a new NBC News poll, just forty five percent of Americans say Donald Trump is solely or mainly responsible for the rioters who overtook the Capitol, versus a combined fifty five percent who say the former president is only somewhat responsible or not really responsible at all. It looks like the time. Looks like time has been on Trump side rather here with the reaction senior counsel at the Article three project, Will Chamber will than actually being

with us, thanks for having me. So we're supposed to think that there's going to be massive prime time revelations coming later this week. But January sixth, I feel like CNN has been talking about January six pretty much every day or every other day for going on eighteen months. Now. I just I don't know what's the game plan here. I mean, they got to figure out some way to

distract from the state of the economy. Right you have massive inflation, unprecedented Baby formula shortage, extremely high gas prices, and Biden's approval rings or something in the forties, and there's no switch now that the Biden administration can flip to fix these problems that they themselves created in the first place. I mean, it's just it's too long to you know, once you shut down a baby formula plan takes a little whar for that plan to get back running,

for example. So I think the point here is just to create something that could get people in great Republicans and then wanted to come out and vote for Democrats in November. And so we've got to go sit through a committee about January six which really, at the end of the day, it was just a riot. It was just a riot. Yep. They finished their business and had

the capital running as usual within a few hours. This is, in terms of the public opinion here a shift from an NBC poll when it comes to the perception of January sixth, just after the riots, fifty two percent of people said that Trump was mainly responsible. So it feels like will with the passage of time, there's either been just a lack of sustained interest in this and also an unwillingness to continue to buy the narrative that Trump

was responsible for everything that went down that day. Yeah, I mean, this is the classic issue that really just only motivates serious partisans, right, the only people on the left who deeply care about January sixth still, you know, six months on, no, sorry, eighteen months on, let's think,

let's clear, eighteen months on from the event, RPR. Serious Democrat partisans, those the people who are going to turn out in anyway, normal people have other things going on with their lives than to care about a brief riot eighteen months ago, even where even if the riot was interrupting something important, it's just it was still just a riot.

And I think ultimately the Democrats have made a huge mistake investing so much time and energy into this when the real way that they would have actually had a chance of holding on to the Congress in twenty two and perhaps the presidency in twenty four governed the country, well, they've just lost sight of that. January sixth committee has been split behind the scenes where over what actions to

take after the public hearings. Some members want big changes on voting rights, apparently even they say they want to abolish the electoral college, while others are resisting proposals to over haul the US election system. So it feels like for some of them it's let's just push, They'll just push to remake the country because you know, January sixth insurrection and some other Democrats behind the scenes are saying and there are limits too, are crazy, Like it's actually

self defeating at some point to be that insane. I like that you're referring to Liz Cheney as another Democrat because that's accurate and it should actually be proper style for American news outlets. Yeah, so you have Liz Cheney on the one hand, who's trying to say, well, you know, I am I am the only representative from Wyoming, and getting rid of the electoral college would definitely weaken the

overall power of my states. So you know, even even though I really don't like Trump and the Republicans, I just you know, she has like some part of her that's like, as the only representive Wyoming, I couldn't conceivably do that, which I guess, you know whatever, Like that's a low bar for a Republican representative for Wyoming. Whatever, I guess We'll do. We take it, do we care. None of these proposals would ever get anywhere. All the radical stuff would get shot down in the Senate anyway,

because they don't have the votes. So it's sort of. It really is. Ultimately, the debate about what actually is in the Committee report is just one of those non important, non relevant dates like, oh no, the January six Committee made recommendations that were too aggressive. Well, if they're aggressive, then the Senate would reject them anyway that it just doesn't matter. Yeah, I mean, nobody on the Household Committee

is more committed than Representative Cheney. It seems to pursue Trump for inciting the attack on the Capitol, but she does oppose, to your earlier point, some of the more sweeping election law reforms that Democrats and the Committee democrats are essentially thing, Yeah, let's just remake the country because you know January six, and lets Chaney's like, whoa, whoa, this is just about my personal vendetta with Trump. Let's not get let's not get ahead of ourselves here, Let's

focus on my priorities. I hate Donald Trump, and I want to get him. That's why I'm only to work with you Democrats. Like, Okay, I don't feel like we should give her too much credit for merely not being primarily opposing a complete remaking of our federal system. Liked good, good for you, golf clap and in the end, and obviously the media aftermath of what happened last week, wanted to get your take on Peter Navarro, who was a senior Economic advisor for trade to the Trump administration. I saw.

I mean, there's there's video of him where he says that not only did they not only they arrest him because he didn't respond to a Jen six committee subpoena, they actually, you know, they cuffed him, They went to his I think they went to his place of work, and he says they even put him in leg irons at one point, and they know they processed him and everything else. He says, they could have just called me and said, come down, surrender yourself and we'll go through

the process. But you know, they want that whole show trial vibe apparently will Yeah. No, I mean we need to first. I mean it leads to two obvious conclusions. First, we need just a complete wholesale like top to bottom clearing out a DJ right, Like, how did that get improved?

There's no way it should have been improved. This is like the most white collar of white collared crimes, not the kind of no threat of violence, no reason to be breaking out any of the serious, serious restraints or yeah, they restrained this man, they cuffed him because you know, Peter Navarre, who is Trump's trade representative, might attack somebody because he didn't respond to a subpoena for a BS investigation. About do we need to do to get Democrats to

realize that they need to tone it down? Like I think maybe we need to when we take power in twenty twenty four, like have like put Hunter Biden in the stocks in the middle of the mall or something like that, like just like some ridiculous thing where we just parade formerly prominent Democrats and just do public shamings

like they did in Game of Thrones? Like what do we have to do to get you guys to not to act like normal people to realize that you just can't unilaterally do this stuff to Republicans without us doing something in return. I seriously, there has to be some consequence for this and the way that it's it's not merely that they're going after people for contempt of Congress, which nobody's done in forty years, but they're doing it in the most heavy handed, aggressive, authoritarian way possible, as

though they'll never be out of power again. And I think we need to just yet another reminder that when when Republicans retake power, it's not enough to stop the abuses. There has to be some punishment, right like that, you know, at a minimum, anybody who responsible for that decision, you know, to put Navarro and like iron should be fired and

blackball from the government. And there needs to be a lot more of that, you would think so, and yet it feels like we live in crazy times, Will but thanks for bringing us a bit of sanity, my friend, of course, always going to talk to you. Gas prices hit another record high today, and news from Saudi Arabia is that they'll be increasing the price of crude oil. After the break, the First TVs T and A Low stops by to explain why America might be headed for

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to over five dollars per gallon. Eye prices at the POMP are being caused in part by the skyrocketing price of oil at a oil topped one hundred and twenty dollars per barrel on news that Saudi Arabia would be sharply hiking prices for customers around the world. Join me now with our analysis of the energy situation around the world and here at home. Is commentary writer for The Washington Examiner and contributor to the first TV Tiana Lo Tana. What's up, hey, Buck? You know that one twenty number.

If you had told us six months ago that we'd be regularly hitting one twenty once in March and now again in June, I would not believe it, especially considering that it's not even the worst part of the summer yet just wait until July. Yeah, So, what's what's happening in the global market internationally that is causing prices right now in particular to spike once again. So Biden wants us to believe that it's all the so called Putin

price hike. But consider this, Russian oil imports only comprise somewhat seven percent of America's daily oil consumption, so that doesn't explain all of it. It's a combination of the fact that Biden decided to isolate, you know, our global allies like Saudi Arabia, who are now you know, a pivotal part of OPEC plus, which is the Middle Eastern cartel that has the ability to artificially jack up prices, and his administration's decision to limit the number of drilling

leases that it's allowing. It's signal to the market that it's going to be very restrictive in how much oil can be drilled. It is not. People talk about the pistone xel pipeline, and that's true that that mattered, but it mattered as much as the signal as it did you know, the actual development of oil that would happen in you know, three to four years from now. The

issue is that drilling oil is expensive. Distributors don't want to set up new sites of drilling if the federal government's just going to shut them down, So they don't want to take a big bet on more oil expansion, knowing that at any moment Biden is signaling that he might just withdraw a permit or withdraw permission to drill. So what do you have Biden hamstringing our domestic ability for supply and instead now in a very embarrassing about

face for his foreign policy turning around. You know, on twenty nineteen, he said that he wanted to make Saudi Arabia a quote global pariah, not using to realize that Saudi Arabia has actually been a very helpful and useful ally in pivoting power away from Iran and China. And now he's trying to go to Saudi Arabia, to Riyad, to go on bended knee, to beg Mohammed bin Salmon

to jack up oil production and bring down prices. So OPEC has apparently increased its output, so shouldn't Adamy for the folks at home, result in prices dropping or just too soon. Well, it remains to be seen, right, we do want you know, the basic formula. Oil markets are very elastic in the sense that if you have more supply, then those prices will go down. But you still have the Russia situation, which is reading havoc in Europe. You know, in Germany because of oil inflation is well into the

double digits. So it's not just you know, quote unquote supply chains. But why is it affecting us so much? You know, gas prices are now double what they were when by took office, So Russia doesn't explain it because gas prices were on their way up long before Putin's invasion into Ukraine. So some of it also just has to do with you know, Saudi Arabia was really the key OPEC member state that was sort of favorable to

the United States. A lot of those other Middle Eastern nations did not see it in their interests to help us out at all. To all the credit that for all that, you know, liberals like to criticize Jared Kushner him him fomenting a pretty positive relationship with MBS did work very well. In our favor. I mean, there was a period of time at Pete Covid in July twenty twenty when oil futures went into the negatives because we

had so much supply. But now we'll see they can release a little more oil, but it's not doing enough. You still have to offset all of Europe that was reliant on Russian oil, and you still have to And we're still waiting on how much confidence domestic producers have in their ability to drill. If they think Biden is going to be lucy with the football continually pulling it away, they will not have any incentive and we will be

once again dependent on four an oil. And last I checked last night checked drilling in the Middle East doesn't somehow reduce or doesn't somehow admit fewer greenhouse gas emission. It is just as bad for the global climate change phenomenon. So it's really just domestic hypocrisy on the Biden administration's part. So President Biden was scheduled and visit the Middle East this month, including the Saudi stop. That trip was postponed

until next month. Do we know what happened? So, according to Politico and another report in the New York Times. Biden has had this personal animus towards MBS over the whole Jamaica Shogi thing, and mainly because he committed to this position in the Primaria as a way to signal to Democrat worried that he was too squishy, that this is his way of opposing Trump, because in the end, everything in our politics just comes back to Orange Man bad.

But advisors are saying, if you do not want to piss off everyone betting that the Interior Department limits American drilling, then you have to go to Saudi Arabia. Quite frankly, Biden's position on Saudi Arabia has never made much sense considering that you have no Biden saying that he wants to make Saudi Arabia prior estate. But still the US having Saudi Arabia, it's number one purchaser or client of arms, the fact that we have totally backed to warren Yemen

without congressional approval. So it's not as though Biden actually did anything to take vengeance for the death of Jamalka Shogi who may or may not have been a sorry agent. But it's just that he just wants to have the maximum, you know, war of the words piss off MBS and think that there will be no direct consequences. And right now the consequences are all of us are paying at the pump. I mean, in some states minimum wage doesn't cover two gallons of gas. So so tina to that end.

Just for folks at home, what actually matters to them? Are we looking at gas lines allow the Carter era? Are we looking at shortages even more than we've already seen? I mean, what's the gas picture looking like this summer? I mean, I certainly think so, especially hopefully people have transitioned away from diesel cars, which I know we're all the rage with environments about fifteen years ago. I mean,

everything about this is remnant of the Carter administration. The only difference is at least Carter had a Chairman of the Federal Reserve who actually had the ponies to raise rates on time. Right now, interest rates are one percent. When interest rates were lack or when inflation was last at eight point three eight point five percent, Paul Volper brought up, you know, interest rates into the double digits. So that is how behind the curve that bet is

on inflation. So I think it's going to be worse than the Carter administration. But that just because I'm a pessimist, and that's why you have to be here. Buff Joseph Reality courtesy of Tina Always going to see Thanks for being with us, Thank you buck. Elon Musk maybe rethinking his acquisition of Twitter. We'll have that store a few

in quick hits, stay with us. Elon Musk may be souring on his potential acquisition of Twitter, and a Canadian HR professional says HR departments and recruiters are trying to put conservatives out of work. We have these stories, any quick kits. Let's get right to it. Look, there's very few things that recently have freaked out the left and the lives more than the prospect of Twitter becoming a free speech platform, meaning that there would be very clear rules.

You can't do things that are illegal, you can't say things that are legal, etc. But beyond that, you could share disfavored opinions, maybe even quote misinformation, which as we know, ends up a lot of time being right anyway. And the left completely panicked about that because Elon Musk is the richest man in the world and he says that he's going to buy Twitter. Well, unfortunately, that may not actually happen. We'll see. Here's a letter from Musk, who's

threatening to walk away from the Twitter deal. He said based on Twitter's behavior to date and the company's latest correspondence. In particular, mister Musk believes the company's actively resisting and thwarting his information rights under the merger agreement. This is a clear material breach of Twitter's obligations under the merger agreement, and mister Musk reserves all rights resulting therefrom including his right not to consummate the transaction and his right to

terminate the merger agreement. So this is concerning to those of us who are hoping that this may open a pathway for Twitter to be a true free speech platform. If must doesn't buy it, then Twitter goes back to its old habits, most likely of suppressing conservative and doing everything in its power to elevate the ideology of the left as though it is sacrosanct truth. Of course, it's not the case. They were wrong about so much during COVID. They've been wrong about so much that it's hard to

even begin to list it all out here. But Elon buying Twitter would be a great thing for free speech. A great thing for our republic in my opinion, and if it doesn't happen because they're playing games and because the woke libs are trying to mess up the deal, then well be a loss for all of us. So let's hope it goes through. But by the way, Elon also caught our eye over the weekend because he asked an important question that he shared a meme that says things I'll never see in my life, and it had

photos of a dragon, a dinosaur, and a unicorn. And also it says the Epstein Maxwell client list. He added, the only thing more remarkable than DJ not leaking this list is that no one in the media cares. Doesn't that seem odd? Well, yes, it does seem quite odd, doesn't it Given the history of the Department of Justice in recent years of leaking very sensitive information for political purposes. Certainly, doesn't it seem like this is the kind of thing

that might just get out there. Don't we have some right to know who was involved in this way? Who was involved with Epstein and Maxwell? Is that something that could be public record? I mean, we don't know if it actually did anything criminally, but who was on that list? We want to ask them some questions like why are you on the list? But that never somehow makes it to the light of day. I wonder why, notice how they set up I'm just gonna tell you this is

my analysis of that. You had Maxwell and Epstein with a massive surveillance operation and clearly meant to entrap some of the richest and most powerful people in the world. And yet none of that surveillance data, none of the blackmail material has ever even been spoken about, never mind shared with the public. Is so interesting in a criminal investigation, isn't it all? Right? Now, here's a Canadian HR professional who tells conservatives that recruiters in HR will get them

fired for their politics. Yeah, you don't say, watch I'm a recruiter. It's a small, small, small industry, smaller than you'd think. Same with HR. So if you're looking for a job, or maybe trying to keep a job, maybe just maybe think about what you're putting on social media. Again, freedom fighters, I know you're not really big with stats, and you know facts aren't your thing, you know, But what I can tell you, what is the fact is that recruiters talk, and recruiters, like the majority of Canada

don't agree with you. Do you know what that means? Do you have any of guesses, any guesses what that means? What that means is that if you need a job, you might not get one. If you want to keep a job, you might not get to do that. They're telling, yeah, you better tell the line of the left wing agenda here or else not gonna get a job. I could fire from your job. Here you go, folks, they've infiltrated everything, including hr as every tonight told the line the nose

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